CIOMajlis hosted an event to explore the new Personal Data Protection Law

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CIOMajlis hosted an event to explore the new Personal Data Protection Law

UAE has now enacted a new federal Personal Data Protection law.

CIOMajlis hosted today an event on the new Federal Law No (45) of 2021: The Personal Data Protection Law, presented by Sumaya Al Hajeri, head of AI Governance and Policy at the UAE AI Office.

The UAE has now enacted a new federal Personal Data Protection law (PDP law) to regulate the processing of personal data in the UAE. The law was announced as one of the 50th anniversary projects in 2021. The PDP Law brings the UAE’s data protection regimes under one umbrella and take into considerations modern global data protection and data privacy legislations, such as: Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), California Consumer Privacy Act and Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) in Singapore.

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